Camp Coffee & Whats Wrong with this Statue

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Just got back from a camping trip in George Washington National Forest in mountains along Va. / WVa. Line. Had not been camping in 5 years due to health issues. Nothing like the smell and taste of coffee made outdoors on a camp stove in a percolator in the morning! Good bourbon in the evening.
Besides a little fishing and hiking took a ride to Monterey Va. Best known for its maple syrup festival. Like many southern small towns there is a Confederate Statue on the courthouse grounds. This one dedicated in 1919. Take a close look at picture and see if you can spot something wrong with it.
 

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Yes. Bolt action rifle. The description says he is shielding his eyes and looking off in the distance maybe towards home or for Yankees��
 
He is not saluting, merely shading his eyes looking into the distance!

The rifle is definitely wrong! Looks like a Lee-Enfield though, not a Springfield from the grip area of the stock!

The "It's just an old gun, what difference does it make" mind-set was alive and well when the statue was designed.:(:(

It will all work out Okay when the "revisionists" realize it is a Confederate monument and tear it down in a few years like they have already done all over the South! This includes the move to destroy the monumental carvings on Stone Mountain, Ga. that have the same meaning to many in the South as Mount Rushmore does to the United States as a whole!

I have no Confederate leanings whatsoever, even though my Father was supposedly named after General Robert E. Lee, even being born in Philadelphia, but destroying monuments dedicated to individuals who were heroes in their individual states, and the era in which they lived, Is absolutely WRONG!!! Several of the Military bases that bore names of Confederate heroes that have had their names changed is equally wrong! There are several that have been changed that were named for individuals that had U.S. Army affiliations that were being recognized that have been changed.
 
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VaTom said:
Just got back from a camping trip in George Washington National Forest in mountains along Va. / WVa. Line. Had not been camping in 5 years due to health issues. Nothing like the smell and taste of coffee made outdoors on a camp stove in a percolator in the morning!

I’m from Giles county and spent a lot of time camping beside the New River and Walkers Creek. My uncle Roland was the master coffe maker. Dumping the grounds in the water and boiling it until the grounds went to the bottom. But now there’s a cabin we just drink from the Mr Coffee.
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Alk8944 said:
He is not saluting, merely shading his eyes looking into the distance!

The rifle is definitely wrong! Looks like a Lee-Enfield though, not a Springfield from the grip area of the stock!

The "It's just an old gun, what difference does it make" mind-set was alive and well when the statue was designed.:(:(

It will all work out Okay when the "revisionists" realize it is a Confederate monument and tear it down in a few years like they have already done all over the South! This includes the move to destroy the monumental carvings on Stone Mountain, Ga. that have the same meaning to many in the South as Mount Rushmore does to the United States as a whole!

I have no Confederate leanings whatsoever, even though my Father was supposedly named after General Robert E. Lee, even being born in Philadelphia, but destroying monuments dedicated to individuals who were heroes in their individual states, and the era in which they lived, Is absolutely WRONG!!! Several of the Military bases that bore names of Confederate heroes that have had their names changed is equally wrong! There are several that have been changed that were named for individuals that had U.S. Army affiliations that were being recognized that have been changed.
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Robert E Lee was the engineer responsible for surveying the first bridge across the Mississippi River. I'd love to see a statue of Lt Robert E Lee, in Federal uniform, erected near the site. Just to watch peoples brains explode.
 
walnutred said:
Robert E Lee was the engineer responsible for surveying the first bridge across the Mississippi River. I'd love to see a statue of Lt Robert E Lee, in Federal uniform, erected near the site. Just to watch peoples brains explode.
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All the Generals fought at one time for the Federal Government I think. But they gave up their career for their state. I recently found,what is probably the last Confederate statue left in Richmond. It is a marker and statue for J.E.B. Stuart’s death site.
 
The statue is horizontal [emoji23]

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My G-Grandpa Sam rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I doubt that he had a Rifle like this one.
Speaking of Jeff Davis -
Pre Civil War he was the Secretary of War.
Among his notable acts, he started the Camel Corps.
 
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When we camp, one of the first things set up (well before the tent!) is the Coleman stove to make hot water for coffee. We use a "Dripolator", basically a 1950's stovetop version of Mr. Coffee or Bunn.

Once the fire is built, a large blue enamel coffee boiler with about 2 gallons of water in it goes on the fire for the duration of the campout. This is the hot water source for cooking and washing up. When the kids were small, we'd have two boilers going for every other day bath time.

It's quicker and easier to cook on the Coleman, but there is something special about bacon & eggs cooked on the fire, and a cobbler baked in a Dutch Oven! We used to do pizzas in the Dutch oven, really tasty, but just too much work and clean-up, so we switched over to pie iron pizzas. At one point we had 10 pie irons, but are down to 4 now.

I like the older Coleman stoves, Our primary is a mid 50's two burner, but our space savers are a 1974 423, and a 80's Peak 1 single burner.
All of the two burners have the red fuel tank, but I use the propane adapter on a 20 pound tank with a light tree.

I used to outfit people in our church that didn't camp with some gear so they could come to our Labor Day Weekend retreats. I have a parts and tool kit I put together for Coleman stoves & lanterns that are post WWII. I used to wait for Sporting Goods stores to go out of business and buy all the parts they had left. Sometimes get a gallon or three of fuel too. Also have some State Machine Products parts for the Army Lanterns and Medic Stoves. A lot of Sears equipment died from lack of parts, before they started selling Coleman products.

My father-in-law turned 90 this year and hasn't gone camping in 15 years! But he still has his dad's 2 burner Coleman from the 20's and at cookouts has it out for coffee service! (As much as a tribute to "The Old Man" as anything.) That stove was in Grandad's cabin when he ranched in Navada. When he was "Punching Cows" and "Hunting Men" he used a fire or a cold camp!

Ivan
 
It might be a sort of intentional 'artistic license' symbolism to have the soldier armed with a WWI British Enfield. The date was 1918, and the inscription on the other side of the pedestal says something about 'honoring past, present, and future soldiers'.
 
targetchief said:
The more serious problem is the next picture. That bottle ain’t near big enough. [emoji1787]


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Va Liquor Stores are state run. Top shelf bourbons are allocated to each store and hard to find on a regular basis. I went to the very small ABC store in Monterey, Va. where the statue is located. No big bottles of Buffalo Trace but a lot of the minis at 3.99 each. 🥴
 
VaTom said:
Va Liquor Stores are state run. Top shelf bourbons are allocated to each store and hard to find on a regular basis. I went to the very small ABC store in Monterey, Va. where the statue is located. No big bottles of Buffalo Trace but a lot of the minis at 3.99 each. [emoji3061]
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We have the same problem here in Ohio. I actually was able to buy a fifth of buffalo trace today.


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